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## Title

    [llama.cpp LoRA] "LoRA tensor 'X' does not exist in base model (hint: maybe wrong base model?)" / incorrect shape

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Adapter tensors are matched by name and shape to base tensors.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Other error fragments:
    - has incorrect shape (hint: maybe wrong base model?)
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/a97cce86a8addeb9f40cba7a261c94b1f0c576cb/src/llama-adapter.cpp (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Name and shape checks with wrong-base-model hints.
    
    Search phrasings: llama.cpp LoRA tensor does not exist in base model; lora has incorrect shape maybe wrong base model
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "context": "Product: llama.cpp\nComponent: llama-adapter (--lora)\nOperation: Applying a GGUF LoRA adapter (convert_lora_to_gguf.py output) with --lora\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nPackages: llama.cpp (convert_hf_to_gguf.py / gguf-py) master at pinned SHA\nTrigger: Adapter trained against a different base model/size, or base GGUF from a different architecture variant.",
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